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At Healthphone.com, we encourage the free and open discussion of health related issues on our Forum. However, to ensure everyone using this forum enjoys the same rights and freedoms of expression as everyone else, we have established the following rules to be followed, while participating in the Forum.

Before joining the Healthphone.com Forum, you must read and agree to abide by the following rules in our Healthphone.com Forum User Agreement.

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Healthphone.com Forum User Agreement

General Terms

Before you join the forum, we require you to read and agree to abide by this Agreement. Healthphone.com cannot guarantee that on occasion other members may violate these rules, so we ask you to recognize and agree to the limits on our legal responsibility.

You are responsible for your words and conduct within our community. By joining this community, you agree to abide by the following basic principles.

These rules apply anytime you join the Forum and wherever you may go in our site, as well as each time you return.

Terms of Conduct While Using Healthphone.com's Forum

  1. Don't use foul language, lie, or say anything you would be embarrassed to say out loud.
  2. Don't pretend you are somebody else.
  3. Don't intentionally annoy, embarrass, or attack another person.
  4. Don't offer anything for sale.
  5. Be sure you have the right to post any material that you contribute to our website -- either because you own it, or because you have the permission of the owner. We prohibit the posting of copyrighted material on our site without the owner's consent, and we have a policy of removing or prohibiting any material on the forum which violates this policy.
  6. Don't copy or distribute material from this site in any way without permission from the owner/original poster. If you are not clear on who owns the material you want to copy or distribute, e-mail us and we'll be glad to help.

Moderation and Topics For Discussion on Healthphone.com's Forum

Moderation

  1. Healthphone.com has created this Forum, so that visitors to our site may participate in an open discussion area which encourages freedom of expression on the issues and events related to our site. As such, all forum areas are managed by our own moderators.
  2. We encourage participants of our Forum to join in the discussions already taking place, however all postings are subject to regulation by our moderators.
  3. Anything posted to our Forum which is deemed to be inappropriate, offensive or illegal may be removed by the moderators, without notice.
  4. Healthphone.com's moderators have final authority and judgment in all management matters within our forum. The decisions of the moderators in any ruling governing this forum is final.

    Topics

  5. No off topic posts please. Healthphone.com Forum has many topic groups for discussion. Participants must stick with the topic of discussion in the correct forum group. If you wish to discuss another topic, please go to the appropriate topic group.
  6. If a particular topic group does not presently exist, participants may suggest the creation of that topic group to our moderators.
  7. Our moderators have final authority in deciding whether or not a particular topic group is appropriate for the Healthphone.com Forum, and may create or remove topic groups as they deem necessary, without notice.

Legal Terms

  1. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS SERVICE IS NOT INTENDED NOR IMPLIED TO BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE. ALWAYS SEEK THE ADVICE OF YOUR PHYSICIAN OR OTHER QUALIFIED HEALTH PROVIDER PRIOR TO STARTING ANY NEW TREATMENT OR WITH ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE REGARDING A MEDICAL CONDITION. NOTHING CONTAINED IN THE SERVICE IS INTENDED TO BE FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT.
  2. Any information about drugs mentioned in our online communities is general in nature and is intended for use as an educational aid. It does not cover all possible uses, actions, precautions, side effects, nor interactions of these medicines, nor is the information intended as medical advice for individual problems or for making an evaluation as to the risks and benefits of taking a particular drug.
  3. By posting to our discussion areas or submitting any material to us, you are giving us the unrestricted right to use, edit, delete, or repurpose such contributions anywhere within Healthphone.com However, we will not make other uses of your contributions without your permission.
  4. We reserve the right to remove unilaterally any material contributed by our members that we consider offensive or that we think might violate another person's rights.
  5. Although we hope it won't ever happen, we reserve the right unilaterally to revoke your membership in our community for any reason, without notice.
  6. You understand and agree that we cannot ensure that our members will always follow these rules, and by becoming a registered member you agree not to take Healthphone.com -- the Hosts of this online community -- to court or try to hold us responsible for what another member says or does online. Specifically, if you are unhappy with what another member says or does on or off this site, you agree that you will not seek any injunction against Healthphone.com and etech-Canada, Inc. and their related companies, directors, officers, employees and agents.

By entering Healthphone.com's Forum, I accept the terms and conditions above.

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